Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove talk to Best Fit about Room Jhoom and exploring longing through centuries of South Asian culture ...

Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news f ...

A new play honors the legendary actress Meena Kumari through theatre and music. The production explores her dual life as a ...

Somewhere on Instagram, a teenager has paired a Faiz Ahmad Faiz couplet with a 15-second rain-soaked montage. Elsewhere, Mehdi Hassan has become the soundtrack to late-night study sessions, while ...

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Now in its 40th edition, Il Cinema Ritrovato has swollen to become a true labyrinth of cinema, a Borgesian garden of forking ...

Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2026. This edition actually covers the last three weeks. The week before last was ...